11. Language is never about the things in themselves, only about conceptual fictions, hence they are nominalists . 12. Nominalist subtleties, coupled with an austere Augustinism, made Gregory of Rimini the precursor of Baianism and Jansenism.13. Popper himself is a realist as opposed to an idealist, but a methodological nominalist as opposed to an essentialist. 14. Further he argues that essentialist rather than nominalist use of the very term " esotericism " has vitiated succeeding work. 15. Metaphysically speaking, Musgrave can be considered a nominalist ; he argues for a position he specifically calls Pleonastic Platonism. 16. Nominalists see the world subjectively, claiming that everything outside of one's cognitions is simply names and labels.17. Though a Nominalist , he was tolerant of Realism, which also flourished at T�bingen under the leadership of Konrad Summenhart. 18. Mirecourt is generally thought to be a nominalist , and is often thought of as being a follower of William Ockham. 19. "' Nominalist "': Whatever a group of people who consider themselves a nation say a nation is 20. Though Rorty is a post-modernist who disagrees with an actual Centre, his plebeian nominalists and historicists require a Centre.
